Environment

Two local environmental groups are asking for volunteers this weekend (10/1/16) and next (10/8/16) to put on a pair of waders, become citizen scientists and help monitor the help of streams flowing into the Red Cedar River. ELi's Paige Filice explains the process, and how you can get involved.

City Council's agenda for next week doesn't look like what we were expecting. The BRT and ethics rules will not be discussed after all. But marijuana, Costco, the Park District, parking, and senior life will be.

Four years after East Lansing applied for a renewal of its expired environmental permit to dump millions of gallons a day of treated wastewater into the Red Cedar River, the DEQ is suddenly reviewing the application. A lot has happened at that plant since that application went in. The DEQ is giving the public only until Friday to weigh in.

Councilmember Shanna Draheim and DDA Chair Peter Dewan helped kick-off a crowdfunding campaign aimed at purchasing more recycling bins and bike racks for downtown.

East Lansing’s wastewater treatment plant has had another accidental chemical spill. This time, City administrators tell ELi, the spill was handled correctly.

“The Grand River and Red Cedar River are the most densely populated waterways in our county, which is why we picked them." Learn more in our report from ELi's Environment reporter Paige Filice.

A whole lot happened at a short East Lansing City Council meeting this week. We give you the full scoop in your weekly Council Capsule.

ELi's Ian Hoopingarner provides national context to East Lansing Schools' lead-in-drinking-water problems.

The City of East Lansing is asking residents to help figure out where there are lead-containing water pipes. Eli spoke with City Infrastructure Administrator Ron Lacasse to learn more.

What's all that in the roundabout where Burcham Road meets Park Lake Road? ELi's Environment reporter Paige Filice explains.

Keep boiling your water before consumption.

The City of East Lansing says you should not drink water unless it has been boiled (and cooled) first. ELi has the details of the advisory.

In our continuing series on safety problems at our wastewater treatment plant, we look at lawsuit evidence suggesting City workers didn't get the protections they were due.

Ingham County Judge Clinton Canady has ruled against BWL in the electrical utility's lawsuit against East Lansing homeowners Richard and Conni Crittenden.

When did the superintendent of East Lansing’s wastewater treatment plant really find out that somewhere between a pound and a pound-and-a-half of elemental mercury had been spilled at the plant?